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...technology and capability to develop a medium-range missile program, which is supported by a secret government budget," Lee told TIME. "We've entered the test-fire phase and may be able to begin mass production in two to five years." In a statement last month, Premier Yu Shyi-kun made it clear that Taiwan would use the missiles if attacked. Yu called for a cold war-style "balance of terror" between the island and China. "If you fire 100 missiles at me, I should be able to fire 100 missiles at you, or at least 50," he told legislators...
...current remakes are dark and violent. Ninja Hattori-kun (Hattori the Ninja)?based on a 1960s comic and 1980s cartoon of the same name?comes out in August and stars Shingo Katori, of the popular boy band SMAP, as an overearnest ninja who moves from a feudal village to modern Tokyo, where he serves a nine-year-old master. Hattori speaks in outdated formalities, struggles to maintain the ninja code of self-concealment in the crowded city, and ends up in all sorts of trouble. The other big-ticket remake now in the works is Tetsujin 28-go (Iron...
...There is certainly plenty of reason for him to get discouraged: the President's executive powers have been suspended. Prime Minister Goh Kun will assume the deposed leader's duties until Roh's fate is decided by a special Constitutional Court, which has six months to decide whether the National Assembly's decision should stand. If it does, a new presidential election will be held, which could mark a bitter and premature end to Roh's political career. Meanwhile, South Korea's armed forces went on alert on the off chance that North Korea might try to exploit the political...
...only for Roh but for South Korean democracy. Once known as a can-do Asian Tiger that had inspiringly shed authoritarian rule in the late 1980s, South Korea has now become the poster country for government dysfunction. Shortly before chairing his first Cabinet meeting Friday night, acting President Goh Kun, a respected career bureaucrat and former Seoul mayor, called the impeachment a "deplorable" incident, saying, "I cannot but feel sorry to the nation that the situation has reached the point it has." Goh called for calm, promising to maintain stability in government policy on important issues such as relations with...
...instructed Song in North Korea's radical juche philosophy and that Song (as Kim Chul Su) attended the funeral of former leader Kim Il Sung in 1994. South Korea's opposition Grand National Party says the government can't let Song go unpunished. Fumes GNP lawmaker Chung Hyung Kun: "That would be tantamount to allowing communism in South Korea...